Gnome problem

[caravel]

Well, gnome uses xml config files and not regular text config files, so I'm having to look into this one.

The one thing you might want to try is creating a new user account and then logging in as that user. The new account should go back to the default fonts. You could then work on copying over some of the new users gnome config files to the old user's in order to put them back to the defaults. The per user gnome xml config files seem to be located in: ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome

I'll have a look and see if there's any other way to edit the files.

To add a new user from the terminal do:

sudo adduser newrasalghul

If all that fails try this:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/font_rendering

Note: You may need to be root. I haven't tried this myself, I found it googling.